Speedrun to Idiocracy.

Unfortunately no, there are a bunch of times in both the Torah and the Bible where God explicitly tells Israel to commit genocide, eg Amalek.

Yes. You can see why I think this will have long-term global implications for nuclear armament.

For many years Iran was enriching uranium and various other countries were like, no pls.

This is a massive oversimplification but basically back in 2014-15 Iran agreed to stop trying to build nuclear weapons capabilities (and have increased surveillance of what it was doing) in exchange for lifted sanctions.

Trump of course undid all that, Biden tried to reinstate it, Trump seems to prefer to let Israel bomb Iran instead.

So in my view what has just been proven here (and in Ukraine) is if you trust the US and don’t arm, you will get attacked by your enemies.

It has implications for nuclear armament. Netanyahu needs a forever war to stay in power, and Iran is now further incentivized to arm itself to deter that.

Other countries in similar positions are seeing how having agreed to a non proliforation deal in the past with the US has panned out for Iran.

So more nuclear armament is probably more attractive to certain countries who don’t want to be the Iran or Ukraine of their regions.

This. It’s literally no different, and the fact that so many people idolise this kind of hoarding shows how powerful the processes of hegemony are.

Szia. We should indeed.

This is probably the best comment I have seen all year.

ChatGPT versus Deepseek is hilarious. They both cheat like crazy and then one side jedi mind tricks the winner into losing.

How can it possibly be their forward position, though???

I just looked at a map and Quneitra city is right next to Golan heights (where Israeli control is well-established) and has the entire buffer zone (which IDF have occupied all year) between it and Syria.

Holding someone for 7 hours in their underwear with their hands zip tied is not about not wanting photos of your base. It’s pretty obviously about trying to intimidate them into not reporting on an area.

They keep saying that word. I think it does not mean what they think it means.

Assigning each war an Average number of journalists killed per year (total killed divided by duration) would visualise this even more starkly.

Running journalists out of town before they can find your war crimes sounds like the actions of someone who commits warcrimes.

None of this is exactly a stretch given the sheer scale of war crimes and cover ups we already know about from that army.

Bizarre take. None of that explains stripping them down to their underwear blindfolding them and zip tying them.

It’s also not some top secret base. It was 200 metres out from a city in a demilitarised zone that Israeel has said it is “taking control of indefinitely” i.e a land grab. The locals were warning the journalists that the Israelis shoot people.

As far as I can see 26% of New Zealand’s politicians identify as Maori, including the man who was Deputy Prime Minister during this haka.

Indigenous people are not monolithic.

New Zealand also has a carve out of Maori seats which is meaningful because it has proportional representation. This is what Australia could have eventually done with Indigenous Voice but there is no political appetite for it in Australia, plus the Aboriginal and Torres Straits people make up a far smaller percentage.

I see no one has ever rold you the anecdote about how a bar turns into a nazi bar.

How is that relevant to who can and can’t discuss Indigenous rights though? Surely the more people in the world who care about Indigenous rights, the better.

To answer your question the US has about 5 out of 435 members, Canada has about 12 out of 343 members. New Zealand has about 33 out of 123 members which is obviously a much larger proportion of their total.

I will never understand why so many Canadians and Americans seem so unaware of one anothers’ Indigenous rights movements. You are neighbouring countries and some of your Indigenous nations are cross-border.

A good democracy has checks and balances to protect minorities from mob rule /tyrrany of the majority.

That is actually what this protest is about - the ruling party wants to remove some of those legal safeguards.

New Zealand’s political system has proportional representation. Maori will most likely be in partial control after their next election.

New Zealand is over 50% atheist. “Pray ins” are not a thing there. It would be political suicide.

Its Parliament is Westminster system.

Not an American, so I can call out anti-Indigenous politics

Any decent human being can and should call out anti-Indigenous politics, no matter their nationality.